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The Abandoned An’ Forsaked - So There Was No Magic Sperm?

In this feature we examine comic book stories and ideas that were not only abandoned, but also had the stories/plots specifically "overturned" by a later writer (as if they were a legal precedent). Click here for an archive of all the previous editions of The Abandoned An' Forsaked. Feel free to e-mail me at bcronin@comicbookresources.com if you have any suggestions for future editions of this feature.

Today, we take a look at how Vision impregnated the Scarlet Witch...or DID he?

One of hey points of Steve Englehart and Richard Howell's year-long Vision and Scarlet Witch mini-series was the establishment that Vision WAS human. Just in an artificial body. Vision embraced his humanity at the end of #2 when he decided, "Hey, we should have a kid."

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In the following issue, the Scarlet Witch expresses some natural doubts about the possibility...

Later in the issue, though, Vision and the Scarlet Witch are captured by the Salem's Seven, who prepare to sacrifice Wanda to Lucifer. There is a whole bunch of magick energy being contained by the leader of the Salem's Seven, Vertigo. When Vision takes out Vertigo...

Suddenly there was a whole lot of magick with no one to control it. In steps Wanda...

But she needs help...

For lack of a better term, at that point Wanda essentially used the magick to make magic sperm there, impregnating her. Heck, if you want to read Vision and Scarlet Witch's interactions above as "magick sex," well, I guess you could.

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In any event, in the following issue Wanda learns that she IS, in fact, pregnant...

I love how casual Doctor Strange is about how the baby was conceived. "Eh, it's only magick."

At the end of the series, Wanda gives birth...

but not just ONE baby, TWO!!

So that was the way things were for some time until John Byrne took over West Coast Avengers (which was soon re-named to Avengers West Coast).